NEW DELHI: Former Chief Justice of India NV Ramana on Sunday said the government has shown little intent or determination to ensure gender parity in India’s constitutional courts, even though women make up a significant share of judges in the lower judiciary. Speaking...

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The appointment of Mojtaba Khamenei as Iran’s new Supreme Leader comes at a time of profound turmoil for the Islamic Republic. The announcement was made shortly after midnight on Monday by the Assembly of Experts, the powerful clerical body responsible for selecting...

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THANE: A Thane court has acquitted a man who spent more than eight years in jail after the prosecution failed to establish key facts in a sexual assault case filed under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act. The accused, an ayurvedic medicine...

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THANE: A 57-year-old Mumbai man accused of chain snatching and booked under the stringent Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA) has been acquitted by a Special MCOCA Court in Thane after the prosecution failed to establish his identity as one of the...

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BIJNOR: A 38-year-old paediatrician from Ghaziabad was shot dead inside his private clinic in Nagina town of Uttar Pradesh’s Bijnor district on Thursday evening by a man who allegedly posed as a patient, police said. The victim, Dr Rajkumar, a resident of the Nandgram...

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BENGALURU: The autopsy of an exhumed body of a 50-year-old daily wage worker in Karnataka has revealed that he was smothered to death, contradicting his wife’s claim that he had died of a heart attack. Police have arrested the victim’s wife, P Asha (46), and her...

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